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...Maze, Trova says he meant the boxlike environment to be a "complicated" one. One figure is enclosed in a Plexiglas chamber, another figure is trying to get into one, while the third and fourth are lost among the partitions...
...heels of its earlier choice of a presidential form of government, the Assembly deliberated only three hours in its rococo meeting hall in Saigon before voting for a two-chamber legislature. The plan is for a House of Representatives, which would probably act as the major lawmaking body and include 150 members, and a Senate that is expected to become a senior advisory body, with an estimated 30 "elders." With bicameralism, said the committee chairman who recommended it, "the people will have a wide representation, and it will be difficult for the government to buy up the legislature...
...Charlotte, N.C., to address a Chamber of Commerce dinner, Romney took on the Southerners in their own territory. "As far as I am concerned," he said, "states have no rights. Only people have rights. I know that some of those who shout the loudest about states' rights are laggards in state responsibility. Obstructionism masquerading as states' rights is the height of folly." Then he flew to New York, where he held a full-blown, big-league press conference during which he knocked the Johnson Administration's economic policy ("We should have had a tax increase a year...
...chamber of the U.N. Security Council last week, there was an unsettling sense of history repeated. The gallery was crowded, and delegates representing most of the world's nations stood in knots on the floor as British Foreign Secretary George Brown began to address the Council. His mission was the product of failure. He had come to ask the U.N. to impose mandatory economic sanctions on Rhodesia, and in the minds of many diplomats present was the ghost of the old League of Nations -which began to fall apart 30 years ago when it proved unable to enforce economic...
...Stern. 376 pages. Vanguard. $12.50. A pictorial investigation of the one Elizabethan poet who could hold a candle to Shakespeare and who was a trouble-maker as well. Marlowe's route is traced through contemporary prints and present-day photos of his haunts. In trouble with the Star Chamber because of his vocal atheism, Marlowe was killed in a drunken brawl at Deptford, just as the law was closing in. The murder had so many loose ends that historians still wonder if it was not a put-up job to enable Marlowe to flee the country...